Thus, Smedema et al. detected LGE in all 12 patients with cardiac sarcoidosis using the JMHW criteria as a reference standard.
We chose the Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG) as a reference standard as it meets this criterion and has good reliability and psychometric properties [ 12, 13].
The Mini International Neuropsychiatric interview (MINI-PLUS) was used as a reference standard and to assess exclusion criteria.
19 We used the international diagnostic criteria for KD as a reference standard.
Diagnostic criteria were used as a reference standard in five articles [ 10, 11, 13, 15, 16], expert opinion in three articles [ 14, 17, 18], and both criteria and expert opinion in one article [ 12].
The test characteristics for pre-diabetes defined by A1C using FPG levels of 110 125 mg/dl rather than 100 125 mg/dl as the reference criterion, produces a lower sensitivity (45%) and specificity (90%).
Using blood test as the reference criterion, oral fluid test for THC positivity showed a sensitivity of 79.4% (95% CI: 75.2%, 83.1%) and a specificity of 98.3% (95% CI: 97.9%, 98.7%).
With regard to determining the level of agreement between the three definitions, IDF was used as the reference criterion as it is the most widely accepted in Malaysia.
We assessed the psychometric properties of the EURO-D scale, in each site, running receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses using ICD-10 depisodeve episode as the reference criterion, plotting sensitivity against false positive rate (1-sensitivity) and estimated the area under the ROC curve (AUROC) with 95% confidence intervals.
The performance of this Bayes factor was tested under simulation and on a real dataset, using the deviation information criterion (DIC) as the standard reference criterion.
